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Are we all the heroes of our own stories? (with Cate Hall)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

CHAPTER

The Politics of Polarization

I think that the general social response to the dynamic of polarization tends to be a self-reinforcing cycle in a way that's really dangerous. You have to have these anchor beliefs like people on the right need to believe that people on the left improperly view everything through the lens of race and are fundamentally seeing people as evil who aren't. And you need to interpret everything that you see happening through that lens in order to maintain self-consistency.

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